Tagged: Eurpoean Parliament Elections
Mojisola Salaudeen
European Parliament Elects President
On Wednesday the 3rd of July, the European Parliament elected Italian socialist, David Maria Sassoli, as its new President. The 63-year-old Italian is a former TV journalist who became a politician ten years ago as a centre-left Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He won the election with 345 votes ahead of Czech MEP, Jan […]
The Election Network
The EU is not ready to deal with Russian influence in its elections. Here’s why
The European Union (EU) is having a hard job building a sufficient firewall when it comes to election interference, experts have told CNBC. The European Parliament — the EU’s legislative arm — has launched a campaign to tackle online disinformation ahead of its elections in May. But there are certain loopholes that mean there could still be […]
Conrad Omodiagbe
French President Emmanuel Macron Addresses the EU ahead of Parliamentary Elections
In a newspaper column published across the European Union, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called on the European Union (EU) to learn from Brexit and consider various reforms that could herald, what he has tagged, a “European renaissance” ahead of the EU’s parliamentary elections. In the opinion piece published on Tuesday, Macron presented a […]
Asari Ndem
New Voting Technology in Maltese Elections
A tech company has set out to quicken the pace of vote-counting and reduce human error in Maltese elections. A vote counting hall in the country has recently been upgraded to include new machines to improve vote counting at the end of elections, housing a new electronic system for European elections. The new machines will reportedly scan […]